[8u] RFR(XS): 8233880: Support compilers with multi-digit major version numbers

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Andrew,

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 4:36 PM Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/8/20 2:17 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233880
> > webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8233880/01/webrev/
> >
> > Testing: Build prior this patch on F32 with -fcommon (crashes on java
> >          -version). Passes after.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> That looks fine; I presume the apparently spurious diffs are because
> you used a different version of autoconf to generate generated-configure.sh.

Thanks for the review! Yes, generated-configure.sh changes are due to
version skew
of autoconf being used. I'll try to generate configure on an older
machine so as to
avoid this before pushing. Does that sound ok?

Cheers,
Severin